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Item #8810 Arshi, Cook of the Seraglio. Engrav'd from the Collection of the Rt. Hon.ble Lord...

[Costume – Turkish Cook; Smith, Francis (after); Calvert, Frederick (Baron Baltimore)]

Arshi, Cook of the Seraglio. Engrav'd from the Collection of the Rt. Hon.ble Lord Baltimore.

[London: no publisher, 1769]. Engraved plate (27 x 19.6 cm.), untrimmed with large margins. "Fran.co Smith pinx. G. Vitalba sculp."; "Publ.d accord.g to Act of Parl.t Jan.y 30 1769". A single plate from a series of Ottoman costume plates and portraits; this issued separately, but which would later be published as [Costumes of Constantinople], alternatively titled [Eastern Costume] (1768-1769). The portfolio issue contained twenty-eight engravings, each numbered in the upper.....

Price: $350.00

Item #8290 Praktisch Handboek voor de Keuken. Laatste nieuwe recepten. Door, Mevr. Coutellié,...

Coutellié, Mevr. [Victorine Coutellie]

Praktisch Handboek voor de Keuken. Laatste nieuwe recepten. Door, Mevr. Coutellié, Verboden nadruk.

[N.p. Ghent: N.p., circa 1913]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (19 x 13.5 cm.), 48 pages. Evident FIRST EDITION. A small Dutch household manual and recipe book, Practical Handbook for the Kitchen. This printing contains no publication information, but a copy at Bibliotheek Universiteit van Amsterdam, indicates it was printed in 1913 by Maes-Bejeart in Ghent. Text leaves age-toned, some small chips to edges of leaves. Black decorated gray wrapper. Near.....

Price: $60.00

Daisy Eyebright; Williams, Henry T.; Johnson, S. O. [Sophia Orne]

Household Hints and Recipes.

Boston: Peoples Publishing Company, 1877. Octavo (19.5 x 15 cm.), 156, [4] pages. Index. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A collection of household recipes, for "every department of the house beyond the kitchen", with helpful advice such as: "To Make a Walking Stick" and "How to Know if Wine is Coloured". Soiled internally and hinges starting. Darkening to edges of text block; some wear and rubbing to publisher's blind- and black-decorated blue.....

Price: $90.00

Item #8747 [Original scrapbook and manuscript notes for the Guerriere Dinners. With:] A Brief...

[Dining Societies – Guerriere Dinners; [John P. Marks, Secretary; Robert Fiske Bradford]

[Original scrapbook and manuscript notes for the Guerriere Dinners. With:] A Brief History [of the Club], by Robert Fiske Bradford.

Boston: [1933-1948]]. Quarto (29 x 22 cm.), [~150] pages. Additional handwritten or typed leaves pasted in. In full royal blue calf, titled in gilt; with dentelles. Some rubbing to edges. Some additional materials detached but present. Generally very good. ~ A somewhat ad hoc record book of the meetings of the Boston dining society, The Guerriere Dinners. The Dinners are named after the British frigate Guerriere, which lost a grand.....

Price: $3,500.00

Item #7351 [Food is Fun.] Favorite Recipes from Friends and Members of the First Congregational...

[First Congregational Church (Marion, Massachusetts), Friends and Members of the]

[Food is Fun.] Favorite Recipes from Friends and Members of the First Congregational Church, Marion Massachusetts.

Marion, Massachusetts: Friends and Members, [n.d., circa 1960]. Mimeographed booklet, hole punched but not bound, (14 x 11.5 cm.), [16 pages (some vertical gatefolds)]. Cover illustrated with a linocut. Title partly from the wrappers. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook for Marion, Massachusett's First Congregational Church. All recipes are attributed, and each is given its own page, some of which are cut longer to fit a longer recipe. Some of the.....

Price: $90.00

Item #8893 Thirty-one Menus from the Grand Hotels of New Hampshire's Atlantic Shore and White...

[Menu collection – New Hampshire Hotels]

Thirty-one Menus from the Grand Hotels of New Hampshire's Atlantic Shore and White Mountains.

[New Hampshire: 1852-1901]. Thirty-one different menus, plus four related promotional pieces (35 pieces together,) all assorted broadsides, broadsheets, and bi-folds (various sizes). Some are illustrated with engravings, others with chromolithograph or hand-colored illustrations. Some of the menus are both printed and manuscript; most are print only. Condition varies, but is mostly very good to fine. Five decades of menus and other items from the Golden Age of New Hampshire hotels.....

Price: $4,500.00

Item #7934 The Mesa Workers' Cook Book. Compiled by the Leader of the Mesa Workers of the Mesa...

[Mesa Presbyterian Church (Pueblo, Colo.); The Mesa Workers]

The Mesa Workers' Cook Book. Compiled by the Leader of the Mesa Workers of the Mesa Presbyterian Church of Pueblo, Colorado.

Pueblo, Colo: The Franklin Press Co., [1907]. Octavo (23 x 16 cm.), [vi], 106 pages. Index. Publication date and edition statement derived from the foreword (page [v]). Stated second, enlarged edition. An ambitious church cookbook, with nearly five hundred recipes, intended “to raise funds for missions.” Most entries are credited, though some to monikers such as “Ormie”, “Fancy Cook”, or “A Friend.” In some cases an aspiration to fine dining.....

Price: $300.00

Item #8774 Plain Directions for Accidents, Emergencies, and Poisons : keep this where you can...

[Turner, Alexis Paul; a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and physician to several of the charitable institutions of the same city.]

Plain Directions for Accidents, Emergencies, and Poisons : keep this where you can readily find it... Enlarged edition. One hundred twentieth thousand.

New York: Mutual Life Insurance Company of New-York, [1875]. Octavo (18.5 x 13 cm.), 126 pages. Illustrated. Appendix. Index. Stated "Enlarged edition" and "one hundred twentieth thousand". Author name from OCLC records. While all recorded printings prior to this are dated 1875, the "one hundred tenth thousand" and other lower numbers contain the printers slug "S.W. Green, Printer". This work appeared in shorter form(64 pages) in 1874, credited to Alexis.....

Price: $120.00

Item #8866 The Cook's Paradise; being William Verral's 'Complete System of Cookery' Publish in...

Verral, William; Mégroz, R.L. (introduction & appendices); Thomas Gray (notes)

The Cook's Paradise; being William Verral's 'Complete System of Cookery' Publish in 1759 with Thomas Gray's Cookery notes in holograph

London: The Sylvan Press, [1948]. Small octavo (18 x 13 cm.), 139 pages. An interesting modern edition of an 18th century cookbook, William Verral's Complete System of Cookery (1759), which was reproduced from the copy owned by Thomas Gray, the English poet, letter-writter, and classical scholar, and includes reproductions of Gray's annotations. "It appeals to the revelation of ancient culinary mysteries while adding the attraction of the fact that the.....

Price: $30.00